Rust bluff
| Rust bluff | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Miller Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 82 ° 56 ′ S , 157 ° 42 ′ E | |
The Rust Bluff is a small cliff in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 8 km south of Corner Nunatak on the east side of the Miller Range above the Marsh Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the formation in 1972 after the South African geologist Izak Cornelis Rust from the University of Port Elizabeth , who was an exchange scientist on the Ohio State University expedition from 1969 to 1970 and geological work on this cliff Had collected material.
Web links
- Rust Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rust Bluff on geographic.org (English)